Kingston remembers Sept. 11, 2001

Thursday

The display of flags are again arranged outside the fire station as they are each year for Kingston’s remembrance of Sept. 11, 2001, remembrance ceremony.

KINGSTON – The display of flags are again arranged outside the fire station as they are each year for Kingston’s remembrance of Sept. 11, 2001, remembrance ceremony.

As he thanked everyone for being at the fire station Tuesday morning to remember Sept. 11, 2001, Fire Chief Mark Douglass especially thanked Janet and Dennis Reddy for the flags.

He also spoke of the large photographs on display inside the fire station showing the devastation of that day, also on a Tuesday morning.

On this Sept. 11, National Day of Service and Remembrance, Douglass reflected on the lives lost on that fateful day and read the Fireman’s Prayer during the tribute to victims and survivors. Fire Department chaplain Eric Greer, of Restoration Community Church, led the prayer.

She remembers putting her children on the bus and then watching the Today show in disbelief. She remembers being outside with their neighbors waiting for their children. She remembers hugging them really tight that night. That’s how Selectman Kathy LaNatra remembers Sept. 11.

“I want us all to remember to just hug our children every night and to protect our law enforcement and our first responders and always their backs like they have always had ours,” LaNatra said.

William Hunt, who grew up in Kingston, lost his life at the World Trade Center while at work that day.

A moment of silence was observed in honor of the fallen at Tuesday's selectmen's meeting.

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